Rose became acquainted with Patient Worthy after her husband was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) six years ago. During this period of partial remission, Rose researched investigational drugs to be prepared in the event of a relapse. Her husband died February 12, 2021 with a rare and unexplained occurrence of liver cancer possibly unrelated to AML.
Most professional athletes are able to cope with occasional sprains and sore muscles. Claire Fahey a professional sports player, says she could brush off most of the inconveniences that came…
Continue ReadingShe Has Lupus But Just Won Her 7th ‘Real Tennis’ Title and Remains a World Champion
American consumers have access to the most advanced pharmaceutical systems in the world. Recent medical and technical advances seem to support that reputation. According to Medical Xpress, a Swiss…
Continue ReadingStudy: Recent Drug Approvals Offer Less Therapeutic Value
The FDA has approved Rystiggo, a developed by UCB in Brussels, to treat two types of myasthenia gravis. The approval was based on the results of the Phase III…
Continue ReadingThe FDA Approves New Myasthenia Gravis Drug That Targets the Two Most Common Variants
The incidence of gastroschisis has doubled over the past 20 years. Read “Jeanie’s Gastroschisis Baby” and learn from a brave, young first-time mom about discovery and how Gastroschisis can be…
Continue ReadingCelebrate Gastroschisis Month with Jeanie and Her Gastroschisis Baby
Dr. William Lynes completed his residency in 1987 at Stanford University. He began his practice at the Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Group in California. It was the idyllic life that…
Continue ReadingFrom Physician to Survivor: A Journey Through Burnout, Mental Illness, and Triumph
It looked as if the fate of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy was pretty much sealed until an FDA official intervened. This information was provided by…
Continue ReadingA Top FDA Official Overrules Reviewers’ Rejection of Sarepta’s DMD Gene Therapy
BCMA is a protein that is found in multiple myeloma cancer cells. CAR-T cell therapies such as Carvytki are engineered to home in on BCMA proteins. According to a…
Continue ReadingJ&J’s Therapy Shows Early Success Against Multiple Myeloma
According to a recent article in the Pharma Times, E02463 is a therapy for indolent or slow growing, not yet problematic non-Hodgkin B cell lymphoma (iNHL). Enterome, its developer,…
Continue ReadingEnterome Announces a Positive Profile for Indolent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
According to a recent article in People Magazine, this Illinois family has a dream: to turn amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from a fatal to a chronic illness in Brian’s…
Continue ReadingDocumentary: ALS Patient Starts New Awareness Campaign “I AM ALS”
If you’ve been there, then you know. Patients experiencing cancer, especially the rare aggressive types such as pancreatic cancer, and requiring targeted treatment for the disease may soon be…
Continue Reading‘Smart Drug’ for Pancreatic Cancer Being Evaluated in Telehealth Clinical Trial
The five-year rate of survival for pancreatic cancer is at 12% having the highest mortality rate of any major cancer. Defence, an aptly-named biopharmaceutical company in Vancouver, B.C. recently…
Continue ReadingARM Anti-Cancer Vaccine Begins Testing Against Pancreatic Cancer
A recent article published in GlobeNewswire captured the results of the trial that was presented at the 2023 Annual ASCO Meeting from June 2nd to June 6th, 2023 in Chicago.…
Continue ReadingPositive Results in Cancer Vaccine Trial for Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
At ASCO’s 2023 convention for patients diagnosed with glioma and a specific genetic alteration, Servier Pharmaceuticals announced that vorasidenib, the drug being investigated in its Phase III trial (INDIGO)…
Continue ReadingASCO 2023: Vorasidenib Hailed As “Unprecedented Improvement” in Glioma Treatment
The FDA advisory panel which is composed of specialists who advise the FDA on brain medications, recently voted 6-0 in agreement on that the new drug, Leqembi, was effective…
Continue ReadingFDA Panel Backs Approval of a New Drug for Alzheimer’s
Patients who have been heavily pretreated for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma participated in the phase 2 study of bispecific T cell redirection antibodies. The participants responded to treatment with a combination…
Continue ReadingBispecific T-Cell Redirection Antibodies in the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
June 17th is International CDKL5 Day. During the month of June let’s tag every day with a reminder to those in the CDKL5 community to promote collaboration and fundraising.…
Effective June 1, 2023, the FDA lifted its clinical hold on Foghorn Therapeutics’ Phase 1 study of FHD-286 dose escalation in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. The…
Continue ReadingFDA Lifts Clinical Hold on Phase 1 AML and MDS Clinical Trial
An observational study of 599 survivors of COVID-19 was conducted at the Papa Giovanni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy three months after hospital admission. The patients were evaluated for thyroglobulin…
Continue ReadingCould COVID-19 be a Cause of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease?
Relyvrio was officially approved by the FDA for treating ALS in September 2022. However, according to an article in BioPharma Dive, there was considerable controversy surrounding the clearance of the…
Continue ReadingALS Drug Facing Possible Rejection by the European Medicines Agency
An announcement by Pfizer was recently published in Biospace outlining the results of BASIS its Phase 3 clinical trial (NCT03938792). The drug being studied, marstacimab, met its primary endpoints…
Continue ReadingExperimental Therapy for Hemophilia Meets Phase 3 Trial Endpoints
Céline Dion’s new milestone is her first-ever film, Love Again, which she stars in while living with a rare disease called stiff person syndrome. Céline expressed her wishes that…
Continue ReadingCeline Dion Isn’t Slowing Down Despite Stiff Person Syndrome Diagnosis
A court in Zabbar, Malta found the parents of seven-year-old Victoria guilty of her death by negligence. The court also determined that the system had failed the child by…
Continue ReadingParents in Malta Handed a Prison Sentence for the Death of Daughter Who Died of Aplastic Anemia
In Japan researchers at the Juntendo University have discovered that when ECHS1 enzyme variations of mitochondrial enoyl-CoA hydratase short chain 1 (ECHS 1) do not function properly, they cause…
Continue ReadingA High-Efficiency Assay with Rapid Mitochondrial Disease Diagnosis
WebMD recently carried a story about a young woman who, after nine years of wheelchair confinement caused by a rare metabolic disease with no name, was able to walk…
The FDA has approved the drug Ayvakit developed by the biotechnology company Blueprint Medicines for the treatment of indolent systemic mastocytosis. According to an article in BiopharmaDive, Ayvakit had been…
Continue ReadingThe FDA Has Approved Ayvakit for the Treatment of Indolent Systemic Mastocytosis
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